Expired
Bible Usage:
- expired used 9 times.
- First Reference: 1 Samuel 18:26
- Last Reference: Revelation 20:7
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
EXPI'RE, verb transitive [Latin expiro, for exspiro; ex and spiro, to breathe.]
1. To breathe out; to throw out the breath from the lungs; opposed to inspire. We expire air at every breath.
2. To exhale; to emit in minute particles, as a fluid or volatile matter. The earth expires a damp or warm vapor; the body expires fluid matter from the pores; plants expire odors.
3. To conclude.
EXPI'RE, verb intransitive To emit the last breath, as an animal; to die; to breathe the last.
1. To perish; to end; to fail or be destroyed; to come to nothing; to be frustrated.
With the loss of battle all his hopes of empire expired.
2. To fly out; to be thrown out with force. [Unusual.]
The ponderous ball expires.
3. To come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to close or conclude, as a given period. A lease will expire on the first of May. The year expires on Monday. The contract will expire at Michaelmas. The days had not expired.
When forty years had expired. Acts 7:30.